GOD’S WORD FOR AUGUST 13—John 14:21 ~ ~ “The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

HEARING FROM CHARLES SPURGEON TODAY

Isaiah 40:9

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Get thee up into the high mountain”

Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing a mountain. When you are at the base you see very little. The mountain itself appears to be half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round and are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; until at last, you are on the summit.

The Christian life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ, we see little of Him. The higher we climb, the more we discover of His beauties. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ which passes knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting gray-haired, shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can, I know whom I have believed.”

Each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain. From there he could see the faithfulness and the love of Him to who he had committed his soul. Get up, dear friend, to the high mountain.

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JESUS, YOU……………………….

GIVE ME MERCY Hebrews 4:16

ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 8:12

ARE THE WELL-PLEASING SON OF GOD Matthew 3:17 Acts 8:37

TURN MY ENEMIES BACK WHEN I CRY TO YOU Ps 56:9

GIVE ME POWER AND STRENGTH Isaiah 40:29

GIVE ME RIVERS OF WATER SO I BRING FORTH FRUIT, SO MY LEAF NEVER WITHERS, AND SO WHATEVER I DO PROSPERS

Psalm 1:3

MAKE IT SO I WON’T BE CONDEMNED BECAUSE I TRUST IN YOU,

CREATED ME AS YOUR WORKMANSHIP CREATED FOR THE GOOD WORKS THAT YOU HAVE PRE-ORDAINED FOR ME TO DO Ephes 2:10

CAN DO EVERYTHING AND NO PURPOSE OF YOURS CAN BE THWARTED. Job 42:2

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